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tindustrial Health Meet Opens Here * Chron. 10-12-50 If free enterprise is to be main tained in this country industry must take the responsibility for the health of its employes. This statement from Dr. R. A. Kenoe, director of the Kettering Laboratory of Applied Physiology and research professor of physi ology of the University of Cincin nati College of Medicine opened the third annual Gulf Coast Con ference on Industrial Health at the Rice Hotel Thursday. 150 Delegates Over 350 delegates from as far away as New York and California were registered by noon for the conference which will last through Saturday. , It is sponsored by the Houstofl Chamber of Commerce in co^ operation with the Texas Slate. Health Department and other' health agencies. ' Doctor Kehoe in the confer ence's keynote address Thursday morning said a main prob'em in this country tedav Is to retain the economic stability of em ployes. "This is a charge of industry as well as government," hu said. No New Problem "While the problem of indus trial health is not a new one it has increased as the count..v has changed primarily from one in .which almost everyone was his own boss to one in which nearly all of us are employes in some sensr of the word," Doctor Kehoe added. He said this change fron. selfemployment to the status of an employe has made industrial health a complex problem. "Industry must face this prob lem." Doctor Kehoe emphasised. "It must sponsor health organiza tions to maintain a study of changing environment and its ac companying hazards." He presented three urgent needs if industry Is to attend to the health of its employes: 1. Training of professional per- . sonnei. which is not evident at present. 2. Develop and maintain re- search activities to keep abreast of industrial hazards whicn are by-products of new processes and materials being used. Recognita Responsibility 3. Industry must recognize its responsibility in the matte, and finance most of the training and research programs to pul and 1 keep on a sound tooting the health 1 of its workers. John F. Austin, Jr., chairman of the Chamber of . Commerce public health committee, wel comed the delegates and said plans are to continue the confer ence next year. I "While the problem of jndus' trial health is not a new nne it has increased as the count! v has changed primarily from one in which almost everyone w.is his own boss to one in which nearly all of us are employes in some sense of the woid," Doctor Kehoe added. He said this change from selfemployment to the status of an employe has made industrial health a complex problem. "Industry must face this prob lem," Doctor Kehoe emphasized. "It must sponsor health organiza tions to maintain a study of changing environment and its ac companying hazards." He presented three urgent needs if industry is to attend to the health of its employes: 1. Training of professional per sonnel. which is not evident at present. 2. Develop and maintain re search activities to keep abreast of industrial hazards whi< h are by-products of new processes and matcials being used. Recognize Responsibility 3. Industry must recognize ks responsibility in the mattir and finance most of the training and research programs to pul and keep on a sound footing the health of its workers. John F. Austin, Jr., chairman of the Chamber of . Commerce public health committee, wel comed the delegates and said plans are to continue the confer ence next year. Dr. Robert L. Sutherland, di rector of the Hogg Foundat.on for Mental Hygiene at the University of Texas, spoke on ment..I hy giene in industry. A close understanding hy in dustries of the importance nf in dustrial health is the theme of tbe conference. Also scheduled for disi ussion is the increasing problem of in dustrial, wastes and stream pol lution. ', Many of the nation's leading authoriti'es on the conference's specialized subjects are here for the meet. Medical Profession Primarily. Mr. Austin i.oinled out, the conference is plam ed lor the benefit of repiesentalives of the medical profession, inoustrial nurses, safety engineers, public health department', insurance companies and utility, sanitary j and chemicals engineers. Howj ever, he added, representatives or .labor and management will profit ! also. Dr. Carl A. Nau of the pre-J ventive medicine depaitment,! University of Texas medical i branch in Galveston, will preI side at two panels during the aft! ernoon in which the following will participate: In Iht first I panel: Dr. Kieffer Davis, medi cal director, Phillips Peti oleum i Company, Bartlesville, Okie., and. 1 Dr. Clyde M. Betry, inoustrial hygiene engineer in the medical . department. Esso Sundaid Oil 1 Con,piny, New York City Moderating the secona panel ' will be Doctor Sutherland. Speak ing will be Dr. R. B. O'Connor, I division medical director, loss pi e- vention department. Liberty Mu-j tual Insurance Companies Bo;-! ton; Joseph E. Flanagan. Ji.. chief , co-operative health -ervice , branch, division of indusli al hv- gience. United Slates Public Health Service. Wasmngun, D. , C.; Mrs. Mary E. Delehanty, pres. idem, American Association of Industrial Nurses, hew Yoi k City; j Harry Read, executive jls>i Uni to the secretary-treasurer, Congress J of industrial Organisations, Washington, D. C., and E. F. Fox, assistant plant manager, Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corpoiation, Texas Citv. Dean Will Speak ' Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons l of Boston, dean, Harvard Univei) sitv school of public health, will talk on "Health and Man Power 1 in Peace or War" at the conlerj once banquet al 7 p.m. today. , I,The conference will continue t through Saturday, when a spe- 1 cia) industrial nurses program is scheduled. ! Joining the chambei in sponsci ling the meet are Harm County | Medical Society, industrial health i section; Harris County health (unit. Texas Stale Health Depart ment, Baylor University College iof Medicine, American Society of. : Safely Engineers, Gulf Coast 'Chapter; American Association of Industrial Nurses, Houston branch; Texas Manufacturers As sociation, city health department, and the medical branch, Umvei- nty of Texas.